INFANT SCHOOL SOCIETY. Second Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the ous clime, and transplant them into a more healthful soil? Our cause is one that must commend itself to every benevolent individual. To such we appeal, and from such we expect a liberal support- and may they ever remember, that giving doth not impoverish, nor withholding enrich; and that "he that giveth to the poor,lendeth to the Lord." children more worthy of your compassion: those who are by the neglect and example of their parents exposed to all kinds of vice. They behold in their parents, the sabbath breaker, the profane swearer, and abandoned The Board of Managers, in presenting a statement drunkard. And will not the hand of benevolence be of their proceedings, during the past year, to the Socie-extended to pluck these tender plants from this infectity, feel deeply the responsibility resting upon them, as the representatives of an institution, the benefits of which, if rightly directed, must be felt, not only in time but throughout eternity. To this institution, the eyes of many are directed with interest, viewing it as one of the grand means used by Providence to hasten the millennial glory. It is an institution which invites the cooperation of the philanthropist and christian of every sect and name; party spirit is excluded from its borders, discordant views are not permitted to come in collision; the rights of all are protected, while none are permitted to have the ascendency. The Scriptures, without sectarian interpretation, are the basis on which our institution rests for its present and future prospects of suc cess. The period has arrived, when all must admit that the infant mind can, at an early age, he brought under the influence of instruction. The experience of every day proves that the mind of a child can very early be taught to think and reason on almost any subject. To effect this, many were the plans of instruction suggested by christian benevolence; but all were inefficient, until the benevolent design & complete success of infant schools, convinced all that the system was calculated by its sim. plicity, to meet the capacity of all classes of children. The utility of the infant school institution has been felt, not only in our city and in many parts of the civilized world, but also among the benighted sons of the forest. The spirit of benevolence which actuated the devoted missionary to forsake all for the gospel, caused him to carry into operation this system of education. In the north and northwestern part of our own country, several infant schools have been planted: the report rom these schools of the unexampled progress of the children, is such as to rejoice the hearts of all who wish to see the knowledge of the Lord cover the earth, as the waters do the channels of the mighty deep. Your Board have felt their hearts encouraged and their hands strengthened by the encouragement extended to infant schools in their own country, and other parts of the world; and they would fondly hope that the zeal which first prompted them to open an infant school in the N. Liberties, has not been extinguished, but still burns with unabated ardour. The number of children under the care of this society, since its commencement in May 1828, has, from the small number of 21, rapidly increased to 1454. The number under instruction during the last year has been 1069, showing an increase of 420 since our last report. We have now under our care 4 schools and 8 teachers: 4 principals at 175 dollars each, and 4 assistants at 100 dollars each per annum. The salary of teachers, rent of rooms, and other necessary expenses, considerably exceed 100 dollars per month. It will be seen by our Treasurer's report, that the expenses of our schools far exceed our annual receipts from subscribers and donors. And will a generous public permit this society to languish for want of adequate support? Shall the wants of the Northern Liberties and Kensington press upon this society and they not be able to meet them? Will they not support and nourish this stream of benevolence, until every family within our bounds shall feel its blessed effects? It is the cause of humanity and benevolence for which we plead: we bring with us the children of those, who, from early dawn until the shades of night, labour and toil for a scanty subsistence. Dear to them as their children are, they must leave them, exposed in their infant state to every evil, while they, by their employment, are compelled to be at a distance from home. But we call your attention and sympathy to a class of The repeated and earnest applications that have been made to receive the children of those parents who were able and willing to pay for them, has induced the Board to admit pay scholars; and it is their design, so soon as they shall be able, to make the school now situated in Sixth street by Green, a pay school. To effect this, the society will endeavour to have competent teachers, and such regulations as wil! merit public patronage. The advantage of this school, we conceive, will be readily admitted by all interested in the early instruction of their children. Many, who otherwise would not come under the influence of infant school instruction, will here be taught to fear the Lord, to hate sin, and to obey the commands of the Most High. These early precepts, once instilled into the mind of a child, will be as a shield against the temptations to sin to which he is daily exposed. man of wisdom, under the influence of that wisdom which cometh down from above, says, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." And the E. BOYER, Treasurer, in account with the Northern Liberties and Kensington Infant School Society, from May 1, 1829 to May 1, 1830. Friday 23 30 70 73 73 72 20 30 29.27 NE 45 29.46 StE 25 29.31 S 20 29.24 SW 12 29.16 SW 10 29.13 SW 10 29.13 SW 40 29.32 NE 1629.27 E 40 29.27 NW 57 29.60 N 18 29.20 SW est. 319 On the morning of 4th, Thermometer at 37° the lowNoon of the 22d, at 77°, the highest. Range 40° On the morning of the 1st, Barometer at 28.78, the lowest; noon of the 18th, at 29.50, the highest-Range 00.72.- -The Wind has been 15 days East of the meredian, 12 days West of it, 1 day North, & 2 days South. There was Frost on the 4, 5, 6, 7, and 28th. There was Rain on the 2, 10, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26th. A thunder gust on 23d. The heaviest rains were on 10,23,26. This month was 4° warmer than April, 1829, and 16° warmer than last March. First appearance of Swallows on the 2d of the month -at which time, or about it, Peach trees generally put forth their blossoms. BIOGRAPHY OF “OLD ALICE." [From the Saturday Bulletin.] MR. EDITOR,-Conversing the other day with a very old gentleman about the olden time, he gave me an account of "old Alice," whom he well remembered. He stated that the principal events of her life were once thrown together by old Mr. Samuel Coates, who is still living, and is well known as the indefatigable manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital. Somehow or other his manuscript found its way to London, and many years after, the author stepping into a book store, was not a little surprised to find "Alice" figuring away with a portrait at the very beginning of a book called "Eccentric Biography," preceding the most eminent women of the world. She was entitled to this distinction from the circumstance of her name beginning with the first letter of the alphabet. I have copied the article and sent it herewith for publication. The old gentleman, who remembered Alice, informed me that she had told him she had often got a penny from William Penn for lighting his pipe when he visited her master. ALICE, P. A female slave, and native of America. She was born in Philadelphia, of parents who came from Barbadoes, and lived in that city until she was ten years old, when her master removed her to Dunks' Ferry, in which neighborhood she continued to the end of her days. She remembered the ground on which Philadelphia stands, when it was a wilderness, and when the Indians (its chief inhabitants) hunted wild game in the wood, while the panther, the wolf, and the beasts of the forest were prowling about the wigwams and cabins in which they lived. Being a sensible intelligent woman, and having a good memory, which she retained to the last, she would often make judicious remarks on the population and improvements of the city and country; hence her conversation became peculiarly interesting, especially to the immediate descendants of the first settlers, of whose ancestors she often related acceptable anecdotes. Thermometer.] Barometer. Days of the Month. Winds She remembered William Penn, the proprietor of Penn sylvania, Thomas Story, James Logan, and several other distinguished characters of that day. During a short visit which she paid to Philadelphia last fall, many respectable persons called to see her, who were all pleased with her innocent cheerfulness, and that dignified deportment, for which (though a slave and uninstructed) she was ever remarkable. In observing the increase of the city, she pointed out the house next to the Episcopal church, to the southward, in Second street, as the first brick building that was erected in it; and it is more than probable she was right, for it bears evident marks of antiquity. The first church, she said, was a small frame that stood where the present building stands, the ceiling of which she could reach with her hands from the floor. She was a worthy member of the episcopal society, and attended their public worship as long as she lived. Indeed she was so zealous to perform this duty in proper season, that she has often been met on horseback, in a full gallop, to church, at the age of 95 years. The veneration she had for the bible induced 320 At her to lament that she was not able to read it; but the deficiency was in part supplied by the kindness of many of her friends, who, at her request would read it to ber, when she would listen with great attention, and often make pertinent remarks. She was temperate in her living, and so careful to keep to the truth, that herveracity was never questioned; her honesty also was unimpeached, for such was her master's confidence in it, that she was trusted at all times to receive the ferriage money for upwards of forty years. This extraordinary woman retained her hearing to the end of her life, but her sight began to fail gradually in her ninety-sixth year, without any other visible cause than from old age. one hundred she became blind, so that she could not see the sun at noon-day. Being habituated from her childhood to constant employment, her last master kindly excused her from her usual labor; but she could not be idle, for she afterwards devoted her time to fishing, at which she was very expert, and even at this late period, when her sight had so entirely left her, she would frequently row herself out into the middle of the stream, from which she seldom returned without a handsome supply for her master's table. About the one hundred and second year of her age, her sight gradually returned, and improved so far, that she could perceive objects moving before her, though she could not distinguish persons. Before she died her hair became perfectly white, and the last of her teeth dropt sound from her head at the age of 116 years. At this age she died, (1802) at Bristol, in Pennsylvania. LENGTH OF THE SQUARES IN CITY PLOT. An account has lately been published in different papers respecting the size of the squares, which gives an ncorrect result-stating the distance from Delaware to Schuylkill at 4,893 feet. We, therefore, publish the following statement, which we believe to be more nearly correct. The distance on Cedar street is somewhat greater than on High street. Length of Squares East and West; It is respectfully suggested to the Councils of the City, and the Commissioners of the Districts, to appropriate a certain sum, to ascertaining the number of houses and families within those limits. As persons will shortly be engaged by the Marshal to take the census, we presume, that for a small additional compensation, they would undertake to obtain this information also, which would be interesting, and lead to some desirable calculations connected with the Census. of the various manufactorics, could also be added, the result, we have no doubt, would be very gratifying to our citizens. We will make one more suggestion connected with this subject: It is very desirable to know exactly the increase of the City by new buildings annually, and we can think of no better plan than requir If an account. Beginning at Schuylkill low water mark on CEDAR St. ing every person intending to build, to report to the Thence to Water st. 400 Square Twelfth st. Square Eleventh st. 50 396 50 396 396 396 396 396 50 Account of articles that passed on the Union Canal from the 30th of April, to the 7th of May in 100 boats. 43 empty boats passed during the same time to Middle397 6 town, for loading. 2,794 barrels of Flour, weighing 105 barrels of Whiskey, Square Sixth st. 396 Square Fifth st. 50 tons. cwt. qrs. lbs. 396 400 50 14,604 bushels of Wheat, 266 365 2 0 2 0 396 395.9 12 15 0 0 50 50 23 12 2 50 312,000 Shingles, 156 00 0 367 barrels of Fish, 60 50 78 New Water st. 30 Sundries, consisting of Flax-7 THE REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE. VOL. V.-NO. 21. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD. PHILADELPHIA, MAY 22, 1830. HISTORICAL NOTES, OF THE PRIMITIVE HISTORY OF GERMANTOWN. JAMES LOGAN, Of Stenton-near Germantown. NO. 125. country with Penn, he came to it as a place to hide himself from the cares of life, and with no wish or expectation to advance his fortune among us; but the reasons which he gives, in more advanced years, for changing his mind, are instructive, as they show that a religious I once had the privilege to see an original MSS. of man may moderately desire a measure of wealth with four pages, at Stenton, in the hand writing of James sincere purposes to make himself a better man, by atLogan, wherein he gave "his parentage and early life." taining the proper means of becoming most useful. His It appears that his father, Patrick, was born in Scot- words strike me as sufficiently sensible and very impres land, and there educated for a clergyman. For some sive, to wit: "When he was a young man, and Secretatime he served as a chaplain, but turning Quaker by ry to Penn, he felt an indifference to money, and deemconvincement, was obliged to go over to Ireland, and ed this a happy retirement for cultivating the Christian there to teach a Latin school; afterwards he taught at graces; but after he had some experience in life, findBristol, in England. While yet in Scotland, he marri-ing how little respect and influence could be usefully ed Isabel Hume; her family was related to the Laird of exerted without such competency as could give man a Bundas, and the Earl of Panmar. ready access to good society, he thenceforward set himBesides those facts, related by James Logan, I have self seriously to endeavor, by engagements in commet with other facts of the early antiquity and distinc-merce, (a new track to him) to attain that consequence tion of his family, which, as it is but little known, I shall and weight which property so readily confers." In the inscribe from the Scotsman's Library, and from the mesame connection, he adds, "he never had the wish to moirs of the Somervilles, to wit: leave any large possessions to his posterity, from the belief that moderate fortunes were more beneficial legacies than large ones." It is probably from these views of moderate bequests to heirs, that he was so liberal to bestow his large library and other gifts to public purposes, rather than to his immediate heirs. "The name of Logan is one of those derived from locality, and hence deemed the more honorable. It appears in Scotch history at the early period of William the Lion, and throughout subsequent ages is connected with important national transactions. The Chief was Baron of Restalrig, and this house was connected by various intermarriages with most of the noble families in the kingdom, and even with Royalty itself, one of them having married a daughter of Robert II. who granted him the lands of Grugar, by a charter addressed "militi dilecto fratri suo." In personal appearance James Logan was tall and well proportioned, with a graceful yet grave demeanor. He had a good complexion, and was quite florid, even in old age; nor did his hair, which was brown, turn grey in the decline of life, nor his eyes require spectacles. According to the fashion of the times he wore a powdered wig. His whole manner was dignified, so as to abash impertinence; yet he was kind and strictly just in all the minor duties of acquaintance and society. The engraved portrait is taken from a family piece now in the Loganian Library. As a man of learning, he stood pre-eminent. His business never led him off from his affections to the mu James Logan had several brothers and sisters, but none of them lived long, except his brother William, who became a physician of eminence in Bristol. James Logan was born at Lurgan in Ireland, on the 20th October, 1674; he had learned Latin, Greek, and some Hebrew, even before he was thirteen years of age. While in Bristol, he assisted his father as a teacher. In his sixteenth year he instructed himself in the mathemat-ses. ics, a science in which he afterwards showed much ability in our country, as a scientific correspondent. At nineteen years of age he had studied French, Italian, and Spanish. He maintained a correspondence with several of the literati in Europe, and fostered science at home.-His aid to Godfrey the inventor of the quadrant, is in proof to this point; and his literary intercourse with Governor Hunter, Dr. Colden, Col. Morris, Dr. Johnstone, Dr. Jenny, Governor Burnet, and others, at New York and elsewhere in our country, show how much his mind was turned to the love of science, and to its disciples wherever found. In the year 1699, then in his twenty-fifth year, he was solicited by William Penn to accompany him to Pennsylvania, as his Secretary, &c. where, in time, he fell into the general charge of all his business; but from motives of tenderness to his harrassed principal, he nev- As he advanced in life, he much desired to give er charged but £100 a year for all his numerous servi- up the cares of business. He retired altogether ces, for many years. This was itself a lively proof of to his country place at Stenton, hoping there to his liberality and disinterested zeal for a good man, and enjoy himself otium cum dignitate. Still, however, showed him at once a faithful and generous friend.- Penn's business and official employs were OccaSteadfast as he was to his honored principal,it is hardly sionally pressed upon him; especially in cases of possible to conceive how irksome and perplexing his Indian affairs; because, in them he had merited duties, so moderately charged, always were. In his the peculiar affection and confidence of the Indian MSS. book of letters to the proprietaries is preserved a tribes, they often visiting his grounds and remaining long detail of them, such as they were in general,drawn there some time under his hospitality. As he grew in up by him about the year 1729, as reasons to show why years, he met with the injury of a limb, which confined he so earnestly prayed to be excused from further ser-him long to his home. He there endeavored to fortify vitude, saying, it injured his health, and much trespass- his mind, like Cicero before him, in cultivating the best ed upon the time due to his proper business as a mer-feelings of old age, by keeping his mind and attachments chant, &c. young and cheerful. To this cause he translated CiceWhen James Logan first consented to come to this ro de Senectute into English, a work which when pubVOL. V. 41 lished was imputed erroneously to Dr. Franklin, who was only the printer. He died in 1751, aged 77 years, and lies interred at Friends' Arch street ground. [Vil. Tel. AN ADDRESS, have not removed the strong probability of future pecu niary need. Upon the munificence of philanthropic cit zens, the Managers still anxiously depend for ability as well to meet its increasing necessities, as to expand the circle of its benefits. It requires constant replenish ment to supply the loss of books unfit for use, by accidental or unavoidable injuries, and the accession of current works of sterling and enduring value. The mem Delivered, at the request of the Board of Managers of the APPRENTICES' LIBRARY COMPANY, of Phil-bers on whose annual contributions of two dollars each, adelphia, in the Hall of the Franklin Institute, on the 26th of March, 1830. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: Br J. R. TYSON. the library chiefly relies for present succour and future augmentation, fluctuate in number from year to year.Since the yearly report for 1829, though nearly 1500 volumes have been added to the collection, its friends have no assurance of its prospective growth, commensurately with the increase of applications. Without impropriety it may therefore be remarked, that an estab lishment which promises so much honour to this City, and such high beneficial consequence to the country at large, strongly addresses itself to the patronage of all, and irresistibly to those whose benevolence nas prompt ed them to explore the distant regions of Greece and Africa, for the dispensation of eleemosynary blessings. 1 appear before you in compliance with an invitation of the Board of Managers of the Apprentices' Library, to make some brief remarks on the subject of their institution. What, it may be demanded, can be said in favor of an establishment so meritorious which cannot readily be anticipated?-It can hardly be necessary for the purpose of recommending a public library to patronage, to advert to the effect of knowledge upon the general happiness of life, to insist that it is important to the social comforts of a free people, or that the permanence of our civil polity depends upon its diffusion. The age and country in which we live offer subjects These are truths of universal sanction, and require nei- for reflection and remark in connection with such an inther enforcement or defence. But, as Cicero has em- stitution as the Apprentices' Library. If the present phatically pronounced, the effort to instruct and infuse age be distinguishable from the generations which have virtuous principles into the youthful mind, "the highest gone "with those beyond the flood," it is in the rapid benefaction that can be rendered to one's country," the advancement of practical science, and the happy explo question may be seriously asked, whether an institution sion of ancient errors in regard to the subject of educa whose aim and object are the moral and intellectual im- tion. Art is overcoming the immensity of nature by provement of the junior portion of society-an institu- rendering the correspondence between distant and hithtion, which of all the means employed, is the most like-erto almost incommunicable regions as easy as between ly to produce this result, be deserving of neglect or in-neighboring parts of the same territory. Nature predifference? sents no impediments too untoward and formidable for The Association of the Apprentices' Library, formed resistance and conquest; rivers and inland seas are made about ten years ago, has struggled through many em- so many highways to facilitate commerce, aud minister barrassments which, while they have contracted the to the mutual necessities and luxuries of remote counsphere of its usefulness, sometimes disheartened the en- tries. Science has already abridged the quantity of terprising and benevolent individuals who have direct- manual labour in the articles of use and comfort; it is ed its operations. From very slender beginnings the penetrating into every business, and furnishing light and library has grown to the number of 6000 volumes.-aid to most of the diversified operations of society. The These have been selected with competent judgment, spirit of improvement is not merely observable in the and the most scrupulous care to exclude all of a perni- march of profound or experimental science; its influcious or questionable tendency. They comprise the ence is silently perceptible upon opinions concerning most valuable standard writers in the English Language, equal rights and universal education. Nations suppos on the various subjects of science and art; of history, ed for ages to be dead in slavery, are springing into biography, and travels; of good poetry and elegant lit-political life. Liberal notions of human dignity and naterature. Works of the light and grave cast, of the elementary and profound character, are judiciously mingled. The library offers books which would furnish a sound and healthful repast either to the lettered and scientific, or the illiterate and uncientific student. Here may be found materials for accomplishing the mind with useful knowledge, and imbuing the heart with honourable sentiments and virtuous resolves. From it may be supplied the nutritious aliment which will nourish the child of genius, and sustain him already advanced in stature. Who can calculate the vast blessings which may be diffused through the instrumentality of such a library? The number of boys and young men rescued from indulgence in dissipated habits and evil companionship by the instructive lessons of its volumes, and the thirst of information which their circulation must excite? The benefits which will result to individuals, families and society by a transformation of their moral&intellectual character? Little aid from fancy is required to suppose,that of the 6000 individuals who are said to have partaken of the advantages of this library, many, who, from the mere destitution of the means of knowledge, would have grown up in ignorance, and vice, its almost inseparable concomitant, have imbibed a taste for liberal studies, and are laying the foundation for future respectability and usefulness. The public spirited legacies of John Grandom and William McKenzie, constitute the only permanent fund to which the association can look beyond the year with confidence; and though these have certainly revived the prospects of the institution, and relieved it from the pressure of a part of its embarrassments, they ural equality are spreading over every clime; and edu cation to secure them is beginning to be cultivated.— Shall the people of this country take the van or the rear in this march of intellect? Shall only the comnion mind languish and feel no revival in this general impulse?Shall we supinely enjoy the diversified blessings scattered so prodigally around us, and show, by neglecting the means to preserve them, that we are unworthy of their continuance? It is here knowledge should erect her temple, and gather around her the sons of freedom. Here schools and libraries should be established to sow far and wide the seeds of intelligence and virtue. Knowledge should be the inseparable attribute of man. Without it he can neither fulfil the high purposes, nor ascend to the proper elevation of his being. It should not therefore be confined to men of opulence and leisure; to the learned professions and the mercantile class; but, common as the breath of heaven, it should be liberally dispensed to the lowest employment in the scale of manual labour. To prevent misconception, I may here, in passing, observe that the founders of this institution never had an intention to exclude from it those who were not ac quiring a mechanical business. The term, 'Apprentices,' as applied to the Library, was used in a more liberal and extensive sense. Its volumes were designed to be, as they always have been, accessible to young men of every walk in life, who are desirous of improvement. An opinion has sometimes been whispered, that as great acquirements are unattainable in the busy transac |